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On this episode of Las Blancas Podcast, Om Arvind and Grant Little discuss:
- What we know about Marta Cardona’s injury
- Could this have been prevented?
- How Cardona’s departure affects the team and their prospects vs. Manchester City
- Why City are the favorites
- Grant attending the Women’s International Champions Cup as an accredited journalist
- Grant’s relationship with Morgan Weaver and several other Thorns’ players
- Grant interviewing in Spanish!
- Mariona Caldentey “snubbing” Grant
- What it’s like to interview someone with the aura of Alexia Putellas
- How seriously should we take tournaments like the WICC?
- Whether the Portland Thorns are one of the best teams in the world
- Sophia Smith being a superstar in the making
- Quickly recapping Real Madrid 8-0 Fundación Albacete
- Esther’s incredible desire and work-rate in preseason
- Marina Salas’ unofficial debut
- Ariana Arias playing on the wing
- Nahikari García finally scoring
- The ridiculous reason we couldn’t watch Real Madrid 1-0 Madrid CFF
- DAZN messing up their livestream of the WICC match between Barcelona and the Houston Dash
- The terrible situation of Rayo Vallecano’s players that we shouldn’t ignore
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Hosts this week:
Om Arvind (@OmVAsports)
Grant Little (@grantlittle09)
Las Blancas (@Las_Blancas)
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